Chinook Winds hits peek comedy

Kevin Bozeman

Chinook Winds Casino Resort will welcome back Comedy on the Coast this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 20 and 21, with the show shifting to the Concerts by the Sea Showroom to allow for social distancing.

Guests will sit at widely spaced tables limited to a maximum of four people apiece as they settle in for the event, featuring headliner Kevin Bozeman, joined by Tom Clark and hosted by Reena Calm.

Inspired by nights on the couch watching Def Comedy Jam and challenged by his roommate, Kevin Bozeman decided to try the Open-Mic Night in Madison, Wisconsin in 1999.

“I always was the guy who could make people laugh,” he said. “And let’s be honest: I had nothing better going on.”

Thirteen years later, he is still entertaining people in clubs and colleges across the country with his smooth and clever style, great smile and a contagious laugh. In 2000 he won the Midwest region of the HBO Comedy Competition and competed as a finalist. He performed on Comedy Central’s Premium Blend in 2003, and finished second in the Boston Comedy Competition in 2005. He was a semi-finalist on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” in 2010.

Tom Clark was born and raised, in that order. He has appeared on such shows as “Conan,” “The Late Late Show” on CBS, “The Bob & Tom Radio Show,” and Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend.” Clark has traveled coast to coast doing stand up and has performed internationally as part of New Faces at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal and on The Main Stage at The Capetown Comedy Festival in South Africa.

Also an actor, Clark has appeared on “Outsourced,” “The Closer” and the Hallmark made for TV movie “The Wish List.” After landing the role on “Outsourced,” Clark was invited by director Ken Kwapis to be in the Drew Barrymore movie, “Big Miracle.”

Reena Calm is a nationally touring headliner. Pulling from a lifetime of questionable choices, her material is autobiographical, silly and charmingly inappropriate. Living out of a tricked-out Prius, this pun-slinger travels the country on her signature #Calmedy tours. She’s on a mission to make people laugh in all 50 States (just a few left to go) and has only been arrested in one of them. She’s opened for legends like Arsenio Hall, Laurie Kilmartin and Eddie Pepitone.

Comedy on the Coast begins at 8 pm. For this 21-and-over event, doors will open at 7 pm with a no-host bar. Tickets are available at the box office for $15. For tickets or further information, call the Chinook Winds box office at 1-888-MAIN-ACT (624-6228) or go to www.chinookwindscasino.com.

Chinook Winds Casino Resort is located at 1777 NW 44th Street in Lincoln City.

Temperature checks and masks are required.